Re:Swiss back further restrictions on tobacco advertising
by _nalply on Monday February 14, 2022 @06:11AM
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Being Deaf I am unfit for conscription. Thirty years ago I would have needed to pay that tax (in French: Taxe d’exemption de l’obligation de servir) [0].
However I was allowed to serve in a different service: civil protection [1]. In case of war I would have gone outside and done measurements for radioactivity, chemical and biological warfare agents. My departement was called ABC (atomic, biological and chemical). I am happy and lucky that the war-games never got real.
Later people with disabilities were exempt from the tax. But then I was thirty and already discharged.
Links are to French text, sorry, no English text available.
However I was allowed to serve in a different service: civil protection [1]. In case of war I would have gone outside and done measurements for radioactivity, chemical and biological warfare agents. My departement was called ABC (atomic, biological and chemical). I am happy and lucky that the war-games never got real.
Later people with disabilities were exempt from the tax. But then I was thirty and already discharged.
Links are to French text, sorry, no English text available.
[0]: https://www.vtg.admin.ch/fr/mon-service-militaire/generalite...
[1]: https://www.babs.admin.ch/fr/zs.html